Private Investigator Blog

Rebuffing privacy advocates, the Maryland Supreme Court has mandated that lower courts make case files available on the Internet, overturning the current block on electronic posting of witness and victim...
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Those seeking university police reports in Georgia are being bounced between the courts and the legislature. The Supreme Court declined to review a case in which a lower court denied access. But the times they may be a changin’. A...
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A small article in today’s Contra Costa Times reports on a new policy at the Contra Costa Court regarding release of court records. This springs from legislation passed last year that lead Kern County to restrict access to police records....
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A small step for humankind… The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Greenwich must release its computer database of aerial photographs and maps, rejecting arguments that the information could be used by criminals or terrorists and would jeopardize the affluent...
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Here’s a somewhat muddled article by writer Jonathan Krim, at the Washington Post, about PI access to social security numbers. The space of a few sentences is offered to Brian P. McGuinness, president of NCISS, who points out the need...
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The U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation committee is discussing Identity Theft in a full committee hearing this Thursday, June 16 2005 at 10:00 AM in SR-253. Tune in to the live webcast. The Chair of the Federal Trade Commission...
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This is the view from my hotel room in Reno, where I’ll be staying for the Ca Association of Licensed Investigators conference, less than two weeks away. Want an inexpensive hotel? The El Dorado, connected to the conference site by...
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There’s a search industry that feeds off the major search engines, finding different ways to present results from Google and Yahoo searches. DoubleTrust returns weighted inquiry responses, stripping away the overlap links and also showing the unique results from each...
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At some point you may need to know about a particular hoax. Or is it real? The Museum of Hoaxes has a searchable database. For some odd reason I searched on the term “mushrooms” and out of the seven returned...
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The Alaska Supreme Court ruled that a government agency can’t charge the public for the time spent hunting for an exemption to the Public Records Act. No commentary necessary… alaska-public...
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